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TroposchemmalogiaTroposchēmalogia
Troposchemmalogia: Tropes and figures; or, A treatise of the metaphors, allegories, and express similitudes, &c. contained in the Bible of the Old and New Testament To which is prefixed, divers arguments to prove the divine authority of the Holy Scriptures wherein also 'tis largely evinced, that by the great whore, mystery Babylon is meant the Papal hierarchy, or present state and church of Rome. Philologia sacra, the second part. Wherein the schemes, or figures in Scripture, are reduced under their proper heads, with a brief explication of each. Together with a treatise of types, parables, &c. with an improvement of them parallel-wise. By B. KTroposchēmalogia: Tropes and figures; or, A treatise of the metaphors, allegories, and express similitudes, &c. contained in the Bible of the Old and New Testament To which is prefixed, divers arguments to prove the divine authority of the Holy Scriptures wherein also 'tis largely evinced, that by the great whore, mystery Babylon is meant the Papal hierarchy, or present state and church of Rome. Philologia sacra, the second part. Wherein the schemes, or figures in Scripture, are reduced under their proper heads, with a brief explication of each. Together with a treatise of types, parables, &c. with an improvement of them parallel-wise. By B. K
London: printed by John Darby, 1682
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Parallels.
A Day is a certain Time; so many Hours, &c. A natural Day is twenty four Hours, an artificial Day contains twelve Hours: So God allows a Man a certain and prefixed Time to repent. Jerusalem had a Day: O that thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy Day, the Things that belong unto thy Peace.
A Day is a certain Time; so many Hours, &c. A natural Day is twenty four Hours, an artificial Day contains twelve Hours: So God allows a Man a certain and prefix'd Time to repent. Jerusalem had a Day: O that thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy Day, the Things that belong unto thy Peace.
II. The Day is set in opposition to the Night, and it signifies the Time of Light: So the Time of God's Patience, whilst the Gospel is preached to Men, and God waits upon them, and strives with them, to bring them over to the Knowledge of the Truth, is the Time of Light; and when God takes away the Means of Grace, and the Gospel, from a Kingdom, Nation, or particular Soul, that is a Time of Darkness, and then it may be said, the Day is gone, and Night is come upon them.
II. The Day is set in opposition to the Night, and it signifies the Time of Light: So the Time of God's Patience, whilst the Gospel is preached to Men, and God waits upon them, and strives with them, to bring them over to the Knowledg of the Truth, is the Time of Light; and when God takes away the Means of Grace, and the Gospel, from a Kingdom, Nation, or particular Soul, that is a Time of Darkness, and then it may be said, the Day is gone, and Night is come upon them.